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Birth
1601 (Antwerp, Belgium)
Death
1678 (Antwerp, Belgium)
Lived/Active
Flemish/Belgium/France
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Jan
Brueghel II was the son of the artist Jan Brueghel I. He probably
trained in the studio of his father and then went to Milan to meet his
father’s patron, Cardinal Federico Borromeo. In the spring of 1624 Jan
the younger travelled to Palermo, Sicily, with his childhood friend
Anthony van Dyck. After the sudden death of his father in a cholera
epidemic in Antwerp, Jan returned to the Netherlands, and by early
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